Happy New Year!

Enjoy the music of the Germania Musical Society while seeing photos of snowy Newport, from the Providence Public Library Digital Archives.

F.B. Helmsmuller composed the New Year’s Polka in 1851 for the Germania Musical Society to perform. The first reported performance of this work was in Baltimore, Maryland.

The Baltimore Sun, February 17, 1851.

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